August 12, 2017

The Keeping Society — Heidi Julavits' Tumblr

Caption for photo above:

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gift from an ex (an envelope marked "wool" inside of which there is wool)

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We'd just started dating; we'd been drinking gin. We decided to run home. Literally, to run. Through Tribeca and over the Brooklyn Bridge. This was not exercise; this was not "running" as in marathons. This was the kind of running people did in "The Sound of Music," over fields and singing. He would have been the love of my life had I lost him. I did not, and he was not.